Born on April 3, 1989, Thisara Perera is amongst the new generation of attacking allrounders from Sri Lanka. Perera began his career as a bowler, opening for the Under-19 team. He impressed with usefu...
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Batting stats

M

Inn

Runs

HS

Avg

SR

NO

100

50

4s

6s

Tests

6

10

204

75

20.4

73.38

0

0

1

21

4

ODI

108

80

1163

80

17.36

108.69

13

0

5

92

41

T20I

40

33

469

49

29.31

153.27

17

0

0

36

23

IPL

25

20

272

40

18.13

127.1

5

0

0

16

15

CL

16

14

198

57

19.8

152.31

4

0

1

16

12

Bowling stats

M

Inn

B

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Econ

Avg

SR

5W

10W

Tests

6

8

954

653

11

63 / 4

151 / 4

4.11

59.36

86.73

0

0

ODI

108

103

4019

3831

122

44 / 6

44 / 6

5.73

31.4

32.94

3

0

T20I

40

30

478

661

26

19 / 2

19 / 2

8.37

25.42

18.38

0

0

IPL

25

25

499

690

22

20 / 3

20 / 3

8.31

31.36

22.68

0

0

CL

16

16

282

417

13

15 / 2

15 / 2

8.87

32.08

21.69

0

0

ICC Rankings

Batting

Current Rank

Career Best

TEST

--

92

ODI

--

82

Bowling

Current Rank

Career Best

TEST

--

73

ODI

76

(16 up)

24

-- indicates player not in top 100Rank changes shown are of the last 30 days

Born on April 3, 1989, Thisara Perera is amongst the new generation of attacking allrounders from Sri Lanka. Perera began his career as a bowler, opening for the Under-19 team. He impressed with useful performances in a tri-nation tournament in July 2007 and the subsequent youth Test against India. These performances helped him gain an entry into the Under-19 squad for the World Cup in Malaysia in 2008.

Perera received his maiden call-up into the national squad as an emergency replacement for Angelo Mathews during Sri Lanka's tour of India in late 2009. In just his third match, he starred with both bat and ball to help Sri Lanka edge past India in Mirpur in Bangladesh.

Perera seemed to have reserved his best against India. He picked up his maiden five-wicket haul against the northern neighbours in Dambulla in 2010 and followed it up with another five-wicket haul in the successful conquest of Australia, later that year.

His success at the ODI level helped Perera cement his place in the team and got a maiden call-up for the Test tour to England. He made his debut in Cardiff but had to wait until the third Test to pick up his first victim in the form of Kevin Pietersen.

His attacking batting and more then useful bowling caught the attention of Chennai in the 2010 auctions before subsequently moving onto Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Mumbai. He was later snapped by Hyderabad for USD 675,000 at the 2013 auction in Chennai, following some heavy bidding. He claimed 19 wickets from 16 matches for SRH in the Indian T20 League 2013. He was purchased by Punjab for 16 million in 2014 but was unable to play that season.

Another alumnus of the prestigious St. Joseph college in Colombo, Thisara's all-round success comes as no surprise. A game-changer in the truest sense of the world, the 25-year- old has helped Sri Lanka mastermind a slew of come-from-behind victories. His lusty blows came to the fore during his 44-ball-69 against South Africa in Kimberley as the Emerald Islanders chased down their first 300 plus target against the Proteas. He was also on song in the 2012 home series against Pakistan, leading the bowling charts with 11 victims, including a hat-trick. The season also witnessed Thisara improve his credentials as a 'finisher'. Add his acrobatic fielding to the mix, you obtain a potent package. Sri Lankan coach, Graham Ford, who was mighty impressed with Thisara, remarked that the latter's approach often draws parallels with Lance Klusener.

Another significant match-winning act hauled in when Perera lifted his side to 180 from 67-8 to fashion a narrow victory thanks to a typically counter-punching and unconquered 80 against Bangladesh in February 2014.

Enjoying a promotion, ahead of the more experienced Angelo Mathews, he alongside Kumar Sangakkara applied the finishing touches to Sri Lanka's fairytale T20 Cup title win two months later.

Punjab then roped in his wares for the seventh edition of the Indian T20 League. In stark contrast to his ODI career, his Test career is yet to take off even though he has displayed occasional flashes of brilliance like his 75 versus Pakistan in Pallekele.

Thisara was brilliant in the ODI series against England in May 2014. He performed well both in the T20Is and ODIs. He continued his good form against Pakistan as well. In the second ODI, he scored a rapid 65 and picked up three wickets to set-up a Sri Lankan win. He picked up four wickets in the final ODI. His all-round performance, which earned him the Man of the Series award, helped Sri Lanka seal a series victory.

In November 2014, Thisara was fined 20 per cent of his match fee for a Level 1 breach of the ICC code of conduct. He directed aggressive words at a departing Joe Root after dismissing the batsman in the first ODI.

Perera had a lukewarm 2015 World Cup campaign. He managed to pick up only 6 wickets in the tournament and was ineffective with the bat.